Example sentences of "and threaten [to-vb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration officials detained him at Heathrow Airport and threatened to return him to Sweden . |
| 2 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 3 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 4 | But Edward was stunned last week to receive an abrupt letter from the DoE accusing him of ‘ damaging ’ their land and threatening to take him to court . |
| 5 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |